Biddy Martin’s polka

My source for this tune is If the cap fits. I have never heard anyone else playing it. I wondered if his version is in anyway unusual as a lot of his settings are.
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Like you, i’ve never heard anybody but Kevin Burke play it. It’s getting to be like a missing tooth when I heard "Ger the Rigger" & " Bill Sullivan’s", which EVERYbody plays.

Jackie Daly plays this pretty much the same as shown here on Music of Sliabh Luachra. It’s a lot of fun to play though repetitive. Daly also follows it with Ger the Rigger.

In Breathnach’s CRE it’s shown but it doesn’t seem like the same tune to me

I remember it from Jackie Daly’s playing.
Was kind of a tough to know where the downbeat of the first measure was.
Independently of seeing the first setting above, I thought the tune started back half a measure – and this is how I finally decided the tune went..
Then I did a tiny bit of arranging to suit myself, and/or how I imagined I remembered Jackie playing it – and voila!

I agree— the first couple of notes seem much more like a pickup than the start of a bar. Here’s an approximation of Morga’s version, which is tuned a half-step up. I’ll post a version down a half step as X:4.

Here’s a version in G.
The "Fdor" version in X:3 should probably be in Ab major, but Fdor was the closest I could get to the number of flats necessary.

A transcription of Jackie Daly’s version from "Music From Sliabh Luachra".